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Can I have context on whether they are innovation killers or prophets vindicated after years of mockery or somewhere in between?
by aitchnyu 3y ago
Can I have context on whether they are innovation killers or prophets vindicated after years of mockery or somewhere in between?
- boxed 3y agoImo prophets.
- silon42 3y agoHow about people disabling JS by default?
- mrweasel 3y agoInteresting question. I don't believe that neither Intel nor AMD have actually found a way to make SMT completely safe against Microarchitectural Data Sampling attacks, so maybe it's not actually possible? If you only care about security, then I think OpenBSDs approach is currently the best, but it also seems like they got lucky a few times, like with Zenbleed, where they for unknown reason never really adopted the AVX to the same extend as Linux or Windows.
- salawat 3y agoI mean, physically speaking, unless you are deliberately going fully Procrustean on your computations, there's no way to really avoid those types of micro-architectural side-channel disclosures. It's a trade-off. Either you get the computation result faster (but you have side-effects that can be measured as an alternate form of info disclosure), or you trade some minimum possible execution time to gain fewer side-channels through which unintended disclosure can happen.